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@lyndal1838 wrote:I love the window shopper....did she say who was going to pay the return postage once she had finished with the item?
I don't believe she mentioned it. No doubt she would've expected me to.
@springyzone wrote:Lucky you have your wits about you.
No one would say that if they'd seen me at the time 
I can talk about it (relatively) calmly now, it's well in the past and all that, but I was a mixture of a great many things when the orders kept coming in from different IDs, TBH - some of the details of the situation I'm not willing to share, but this is a good visual representation of my initial mindset.
It took about 24 hours for me to calm enough to feel angry, lol, which is what helped me to start working through my options, and it affected me for a good long while - as embarassing as it is to admit, I had the buyer's Facebook profile bookmarked until I bought a new computer, and for a few months after I put the products back up for sale, when they sold I would check her friendlist for the buyer name before I would post them out. 
12 blocked buyers on smallest account which has 2280 sales, 37 on BBL of largest account which has 9438 sales and 26 blocked buyers on the middle sized account with 3301 sales. The reason the last account runs at a higher % than the others is that this account sells a variety of items including collectibles which attract more problem buyers than the other two accounts. So basically running at around 0.3 - 0.7 % of sales. It is worth mentioning that most of these where blocked before actually making a purchase.
I don't have any posters from the forums blocked, ( although I,m sure I would be on plenty of other forum watchers BBL's.....
) and only block buyers who give the impression of being plain crazy or just stupid. Many on the BBL would be buyers who make insultingly low offers, ( I don't have the patience to deal with idiots like that ) or ask several questions, the answer of which is clearly shown in the listing if they just bothered to read it.
Several are "buyers " who obviously come from another planet, sending me pages of typed text on their theories on gun control and the lunar landing ( true I have had a couple of these..... ) and of course there is the occasional buyer who just turned very nasty and had to be reported to ebay.
@digital*ghost wrote:
@springyzone wrote:Lucky you have your wits about you.
No one would say that if they'd seen me at the time
I can talk about it (relatively) calmly now, it's well in the past and all that, but I was a mixture of a great many things when the orders kept coming in from different IDs, TBH - some of the details of the situation I'm not willing to share, but this is a good visual representation of my initial mindset.
It took about 24 hours for me to calm enough to feel angry, lol, which is what helped me to start working through my options, and it affected me for a good long while - as embarassing as it is to admit, I had the buyer's Facebook profile bookmarked until I bought a new computer, and for a few months after I put the products back up for sale, when they sold I would check her friendlist for the buyer name before I would post them out.
It would have affected me the same, I think. Maybe even more so. I probably would have marked the buyer's profile on my new computer too (if I knew how to do it, which I am not sure I do, but it would have been worth the learning curve.
).
All I can conclude is some people have more money than sense. The bottom line is that ebay is just a buying & selling forum & anyone with any sense buys things because they want or need them, not to get some sort of 'revenge' on a person they have never met.
Chameleon's conspiracy theorists sound positively benevolent in comparison. Still on the weird side, mind you.
